Miami-Dade mayoral hopefuls Jose “Pepe” Cancio and Luther “Luke” Campbell, snubbed from other candidate forums, finally have a platform on which they can finally share the stage and be compared to each other and all the other guys and, finally, one girl (more on that later). Cancio, a businessman and former interim county commission (appointed […]
Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina, one of the front runners in the race to replace recalled county mayor Carlos Alvarez, has raised more than $611,000 for the election bid. That’s more than twice as much as former commissioner Carlos Gimenez, who resigned this week to run for the top post, and quite a leap frog jump […]
Three other people have stepped up to challenge former State Rep. Esteban Bovo (Rep. Dist 110) for the seat at county commission district 13, vacated by the recall of veteran Natacha Seijas. They are Alan Rigerman, a middle school teacher who lives with big cats and has fought rock mining in Northwest Dade; Tania Castellanos […]
Eleven candidates finally qualified to run for county mayor by the 5 p.m. deadline today, including four additional names that were new ones — in this race, anyway. Wilbur Bell and Gabrielle Redfern, who ran for Miami Beach mayor and commissioner last year but lost, filed and qualified. So did Eddie Lewish, who ran for […]
Relax candidates, former county mayor Alex Penelas will pass. Ladra is going to go out on a limb here and predict that all that huffing and puffing won’t pan out. Penelas might be putting his name out there for another election later on. But we don’t think someone as savvy as he would enter a […]